This is a big test and hopefully it works, I have been asked by fellow RCZ'ers who went on the Austria trip, if I can post some of my pics.... Videos I cannot do nor footage from my Drone.I took 5 cameras and amassed over 230GB of data. This will probably bore the pants off many of you, if so don't look !!Those of you whom are interested - enjoy.

If this works I will try to post in some sort of logical order, the first couple are tests...

This was the car after doing 1532kms - still shiningWith the Alps in the backgroundThe Castle - the Hotel Restaurant is just visible on the rightI love my car...Sun just breaking through 8amEngine just ticking overSome shots you just cannot bore ofThe owner of the castle has been dead 200 years !Even managed to find a woodpeckerTwinkle twinkle little starThis was a vivid shot of the carA red kite if I am not mistaken

When I said this was a test, it was because these are in my flicker account and didn't know if I could link them or actually post them. Anyways RCZ'ers it seems you can post them just like PhotoBucket. So there is another way to show of your pics ! If anyone needs help with this, ask and I'll tell you how I did it.

Anyways, Thanks for the positive comments, away we go....

It was a fair drop from the castle edgeto the valley belowThese were the rooms at the back of the hotel, complete with loungers, the wooded area had a hot tub - wee hey!!front of hotel, each block was a room, very nice and cosy warm rooms - well done Danny for choicepride and place - well I was there first !!the village had a small lakethis guy was fishingbut the fish were at my side !there was a harvest type festival going onthe village was very prettyand had it's own ski lift

Our first drive outthe roads and scenery were amazingyou looking at me !!!nearly at the top, this was a hydro-electric damwell i had to !at the topand at the back of the grid...guess whatwe drove up here and the views were amazing @ 2750mcable-car lift for the skier's to 3108mif you thought this was quite close, see if you can pick out the diggerskiing anyone?about to set off backcouldn't resistyou meet the craziest people while you are away !all 12the red car was the crazy lady with teddythe roads and views - stunningas was this !! well someone has to big it up lolsome guys from England were diving here - repairing the dam or similarlooks small doesn't it, until you can see there is portacabins stacked on there !who's that girl?I'm not cutting the grass - no way o saywell there's all sorts to see in this picture - including me !this was from a floating platform, my legs were like jelly !guess what I'm in?.... give up?

So the yellow lift was only to half way, you then had to get the red lift to the top !!!this was the top, very high, nice restaurant toothe village bottom left wasn't ours - this was the half way point !!dramatic shot !some guys and gals were doing carvings, this was in stone - guess what it is yet?some of their work was for sale - like this Madonnatop of the world really

This was on our way to Stelvio Pass, first time all lined up

Apparently just after the war when Italy was run by Fascists, they decided to flood this valley and told the residents to leave. There was no compulsory purchase scheme them days, so most of the villagers left for America. As a reminder they left one of the church steeples erect.. this is itOf course all this driving takes it's toll and when you've gotta go.....Now this area is a tourist "hot-spot"the not so Dirty Dozen !!this was the valley before flooded, you can see the spire in the village bottom righttop of the Stelviothe dogs liked it toolots of people stick stickers to the sign at the topbelieve it or not but there are lots of little shops at the topand a pizza restaurant - they were very nicethis was part of the road up, it has 47/48 bends each one numberedwe were waiting for the lights to change green, this is one end of a tunnel with a single road, hence the traffic light system, of the top of my head the tunnel was 11km !View from behind us - I'm sure I've seen this on Top Gear !!from inside the tunnel, taken from a video clip off internal dashcam

For as much as I love Ireland in it's entirety; the fishing, the people, the roads, the scenery - the Alps were something else !! the roads were a pleasure to drive along. I at first kept turning my dash cam off to save space, thinking I'll turn it back on when I see something really nice, truth of it is , it stayed on all the time , for every turn of every corner was another spectacular view, be it a drop or a snow capped mountain rising into the sky.

I have been driving in the Alps three times now, to really experience it you have to go, it is an amazing place !